# fontana
## Franco-Provençal
### Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin fontāna.

### Noun

fontana f (plural fontanes) (ORB, broad)
* fountain

### References

* fontaine in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
* fontana in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

## Italian
### Etymology

From Late Latin fontāna, from Latin fontānus, from fōns. The meaning of fountain, as an artificial installation, may be partly derived from or influenced by the Old French equivalent.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fonˈta.na/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ana
* Hyphenation: fon‧tà‧na

### Noun

fontana f (plural fontane)
* fountain
* source, spring
    Synonym: sorgente
* a firework that sends relatively slow sparks in the air which then fall down, very much resembling a fountain (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)

#### Derived terms

* fontanazzo
* fontanella
* fontaniere
* fontanile

#### Related terms

* fonte

### Anagrams

* tanfano

## Latin
### Etymology

Substantivation of the feminine of Classical fontānus (“of a spring”), from fōns (“spring”) (or a shortening of the expression fontana aqua).

### Noun

fontāna f (genitive fontānae); first declension
* (Late Latin) spring, fountain, source

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* Aromanian: fãntãnã
* Asturian: fontana
* Catalan: fontana
* Corsican: funtana
* Franco-Provençal: fontana
* Old French: fontaine
** Middle French: fontaine
*** French: fontaine
**** → Dutch: fontein
***** Afrikaans: fontein
**** → Norwegian: fontene
** → Middle English:
*** English: fountain
* Friulian: fontane
* ⇒ Galician: fontela
* Italian: fontana
** → Polish: fontanna
* Ladin: funtana
* Portuguese: fontana
* Romanian: fântână
* Romansch: funtauna
* Sardinian: fantana, funtana
* Sicilian: funtana
* Spanish: hontana, fontana
* → Belarusian: фантан (fantan)
* → Proto-Brythonic: *funtọn (see there for further descendants)
* → Czech: fontána
* → German: Fontäne
* → Lithuanian: fontanas
* → Russian: фонтан (fontan)
* → Serbo-Croatian: fontana
* → Slovak: fontána
* → Swedish: fontän
* → Ukrainian: фонтан (fontan)

### References

* “fontana”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* fontana in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* fontana in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Serbo-Croatian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fǒntaːna/
* Hyphenation: fon‧ta‧na

### Noun

fòntāna f (Cyrillic spelling фо̀нта̄на)
* fountain (artificial water feature)

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin fontāna, from Latin fontānus, from fōns; this form was probably derived from or influenced by Old French (as evidenced by an older Spanish variant fontaina). Cf. also the form hontana, which may have been more popular. It is still found as a popular or inherited element in some geographical place names and some derivative forms.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fonˈtana/ [fõn̪ˈt̪a.na]
* Rhymes: -ana
* Syllabification: fon‧ta‧na

### Noun

fontana f (plural fontanas)
* (poetic, formal, archaic) fountain

#### Related terms

* fuente
* hontana

### References

* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “fontana”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

### Further reading

* “fontano”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10